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Yeah they're probably gone. I tried looking for some video I remembered a while back but you need the url to have any chance of success.
Yupp, exact URL is pretty much a bare minimum requirement.
Archive.org sometimes will have YT videos saved too, just an inspect element to grab the video MP4 from their custom player
And the video you were looking for was still in YT or what is the benefit of knowing the exact URL?
I'm asking because I used to save the videos in my browser bookmarks but I did some cleaning several years ago.
I wish. When I deleted my YouTube account, I lost a few videos that i had sworn were locally backed up, but i was wrong. I tried finding them for months online, but came up with nothing.
I'd love to know if it's still possible, though.
Man, your videos are hostage in the Google servers probably.
this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2023
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